NEWS: Sunday Morning Hilarity News Short: Super Boston Pops Melée!

CULTURE: Sunday Morning Hilarity News Short: Super Boston Pops Melée!

I remember back in high school I used to see kids with backpack patches you could buy at Hot Topic that said things like "I got beat up in the Hanson mosh pit!," and it was somewhat funny because it wasn't true. So what happens when your dad gets his suburban ass rocked to the tune of an orchestral medley from the musical Gigi! while waiting for Ben Folds to come on at the Boston Pops? Probably the only real course of action at that point is to wear a paper bag over your head and cry out, "Oh, the shame of it all!" Seriously, Beantown: what the fuck?

How terribly embarrassing for the guys. Thankfully, it was all caught on film and broadcast across the city and to everyone with internet connection forever and ever.

The only person I really feel sorry for in this case is Ben Folds, because how do you follow up a class act like that? For goodness' sake, even the conductor was so dumbfounded that the entire concert had to pause for a second to take in the disruptive majesty of these chucklebuckets.

Everyone in Boston can't possibly be this high-strung, can they? Between this and the whole Mooninite madness scandal, I'm beginning to think that the whole town needs a lesson in how to relax.

Deep breaths, guys. Deep breaths.

Chill.

This is how we relax. God.

AAAHHHAHAHAHAHA.

TOUPEE FIGHT!

Leave her alone. She's been blinded by Pete Wentz.

Actual news report.

Oh they have an interview with that guy!

yeah,
i have lived here on and off for my whole life
and man,

you aint kiddin

-fuakin robats round heya kid

If they were wearing tuxedos it would have been even better.

I saw this on the news and it looked basically like two men who looked like NJ Gov. Jon Corzine too, which added so much for me, that it was two dudes who were post 50 and had glasses and hey -- i dunno but -- that made it funnier?


It is the coarsening of our society=road rage=concert rage.

I didn't write that part, MSNBC did! Quotes, fool!

No, that's the problem. I think the troubles stem from the copius amounts of gas produced from all the beans and beer.

heh. Chuckleheads. Good word choice.

they didnt have to see ben folds? sounds good to me.

I personally love it. Nothing proves we are animals at heart than this. Think a brawl in church would have been better though. These guys need a good workout or to get laid or to get medication, I can't figure out which...

Was one of the guys wearing an "Aqua Teen Force" shirt?
"TERRORIST!!!!!!!!!!!!" (struggles to keep other guy from blowing up builiding).

Just because you didn't want to go to the orchestra that night, doesn't mean you need to let everyone around you know.

I mean, what could be worse than your lovely evening being ruined by a Boston accent?

Right on. Jesus Himself rioted in the Temple:

(from Matthew 21 King James Version):
And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves, and said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves.

There's also something in the chapter about a "ye shall find an ass tied" - maybe it was a BDSM setup.

I think it's in Matthew 11, too, and somewhere, in Mark, Luke and John.

i was not accusing you in any way of writing that. I just thought it was funny

Any magazine or news story will list someone as a "rocker" if they've so much as been within spitting distance of an electric guitar or drumkit.

Particularly when they're about to appear with an orchestra.

In Boston, everyone fights.

ARTHUR FIEDLER WILL CUT SOMEONE!!

Aww I wasn't calling you a fool, I was talking to El Bastard for bringing Pete Wentz into this.

Arthur Fielder will apparently kill you from 200 yards away... with mind bullets.

It was even more pathetic in my head. When I first read the story,I thought the music playing was from the movie Gigli, not Gigi.

[/shudder]

I have to admit... I've wanted to kill audience members for not shutting the fuck up when I'm trying to enjoy a performance. It kinda ruins the experience... but so does loudly fighting in the balcony.

I wonder who overreacted, first - my money is on the guy who was accused of being too loud.

If you want to talk during a performance, then put in a CD... don't go to a live show to be an asshat.

Relax, you'll live longer.

I lOl'd.